Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

I'm not a believer of reincarnation either. But I do take the physicist's view that nothing in the universe is every truly destroyed, just transformed into something else. Everything comes from star dust. Every particle, element, atom.... the works, comes from exploding stars and is remade into everything else.

I have (i guess it's a poster) a poster (didn't I just say that?) in a frame under glass that is a representation of the Universe. It's amazing because it shows cross sections and super clusters and ever-expanding views. We like to think we are the most important thing in the universe, but looking at this print is quite humbling. We are truly nothing, and nothing we do makes any damn difference to the rest of the universe.